Adobe® Flash® Player 10.2 Release Notes

Welcome to Adobe Flash Player 10.2 software! This document is for users developing content for Flash Player 10.2 and addresses issues that are not discussed in the Flash Professional or Flex documentation. This document may be updated periodically as more information becomes available.

System Requirements / Language Support

The Adobe Flash Player 10.2 no longer supports Microsoft Windows 2000 and Macintosh PowerPC-based computers. As mentioned in the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, Adobe is discontinuing support of PowerPC-based computer and will no longer provide security updates. Support is being discontinued because of performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture.

Versions of Adobe Flash Player

Adobe recommends that all Flash Player users on supported systems update to the most recent version of the player through the Flash Player Download Center.

Ensure that you have the latest version of Flash Player installed by clicking here to check the version you have installed and the latest shipping version for each platform.

The first public release of Flash Player 10.2 is version 10.2.152. Users should update to the newest version of Flash Player 10.2 for content development and testing. Updated versions of the content debugger and other players are posted on the Flash Player Support Center Downloads page.

[FP-5851] For both the getServiceLocations request and the GetSettings request, the namespaces are being stripped out of the request (sibling elements) when creating request object with FlashPlayer 10.2

AS3 Timeline: First frame of Movie Clip animation played twice when created and added to stage with ActionScript. (2520095)

[FP-4423] onEnterFrame gets called more often than necessary. (2614589)

When Out of Memory Handling is triggered in the Standalone Player, the Standalone Player simply exits without displaying an out of memory error. (2555713)

On Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 systems, users may encounter a limit on the amount of data they can upload at one time via FileReference (2812090).

Audio/Video

Stage Video accelerated rendering is always available when wmode=direct and when Flash Player is in full screen mode, regardless of wmode. Stage Video acceleration may be available in other wmode settings but it is not guaranteed.

Adobe is aware of issues with specific GPU driver versions and has notified manufacturers of any issues discovered during testing. Adobe recommends updating to the latest GPU driver versions to take advantage of the new Stage Video capabilities and other accelerated rendering features.

H.264 Video Hardware acceleration is not available on some Macintosh platforms. Please Refer the Apple Developer Connection technote on which Macintosh configurations support Hardware decoding: (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2010/tn2267.html)

H.264 Hardware decoding on Linux is available as an experimental feature and has been tested on NVidia GT 330 and Broadcom BCM70015 GPUs. Users may choose to enable hardware decoding by adding EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in an mms.cfg configuration file. Users may experiance instability and crashes while watching hardware accelerated video. Please report any issues to http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer.

H.264 Video Hardware acceleration is not available for DRM-protected content on Broadcom graphics chips.

For all supported Intel GPUs, we recommend using an Aero windows theme. Performance is significantly improved for fullscreen playback with Aero-enabled windows environments.

On some Macintosh systems, for content using Stage Video, dragging the window to a secondary monitor while video is playing and then launching into full screen mode causes the video rendering to be corrupted. (2802209)

Mac users may run into rendering issues with certain live streams due to an incompatibility between the stream encoding and the hardware decoder. We are aware of this issue and are working with Apple to resolve it. Users may workaround the issue by pausing and then unpausing the live stream. Developers can work around this issue by forcing the video to be decoded in software - create two Video objects, attach the stream to the first, then stop it and attach the stream to the second Video object (2819870, 2818959, 2779420).

Windows users with systems using NVidia Optimus technology which has two GPUs that switch dynamically depending on the graphics operation would occasionally see a black or green screen when trying to view video in fullscreen. We are working with NVidia to resolve the issue (2745863, 2821031).

On http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday, users may experiance video pausing when entering/exiting full screen mode (2803013) and incorrect positioning of videos (2794616, 7296598)

The .f4v files created by AME CS5 cannot be called by onXMPData. (2603890)

Text/Text Input

On Windows XP, text does not render correctly when the system color quality is set to 16 bit. Workaround: set color quality to 32 bit. (2782569)

[FP-1982] appendText when appending from another text field does not append in the correct location when the source string contains "\n". (2341522)

Classic Text: Large font sizes are not drawing correctly on stage on in exported SWF Movies. (2483664)

Content Protection is not available on the Solaris platform or on mobile devices.

Content Protection is not available on the Standalone Player or External Player.

Videos that require Output Protection will only playback on Windows platforms.

Installation/Uninstallation

The Flash Player MSI installers report a generic error message for all installation failures (error 1722). More descriptive installation failure information can be found in the installation log file. See this TechNote for more information.

Browser

Chrome:

Printing SWFs is not enabled in Google Chrome. We are working with Google to address this issue. (2490502)

Safari:

Printing SWFs is not enabled in Safari on Windows platforms. We are investigating this issue with Apple. (2490502)

SWF-based H.264 video may be decoded by your graphics hardware. There may be video bugs that can only be reproduced with your particular video card and driver. When reporting a bug involving video, it is essential to note your graphics card and driver, along with your operating system and browser, so that we can reproduce and investigate issues. Please be sure to include this information as described in Instructions for Reporting Video Bugs.

Note: Due to the high volume of email we receive, we are unable to respond to every request.

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